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March to the Mailbox Community Service Event?

By JGillman, Section News
Posted on Thu Apr 08, 2010 at 11:38:54 AM EST
Tags: census, Michigan, Rallies, Tea Party (all tags)

Received an email today mentioning a "rally" in support of the census with good little boys and girls of boy scout and girls scouting age to "March to the Mailbox" on Saturday, around the same time we are having a Tea Party at the Traverse City Civic Center with the Tea Party Express rolling in. (11-3 Saturday April 10) Trucker Randy Bishop writes:

Are they really that afraid of our Tea Party movement?
Denis Baker - Partnership Assistant for the U.S. Census Bureau sent out a "Public Service Notice" yesterday April 7,2010.
Denis asked all "Traverse Area Scout Troops" to participate in a "March to the Mailbox Community Service Event" to bring additional awareness to the Census and to underscore the importance of mailing the Census form back to the government. Denis Baker can be reached by e-mail at:
lostincedar@centurytel.net
This event is scheduled to begin at 10:45 a.m., which is just 45 minutes before the Traverse City "Tea Party Express Bus" tour event which will begin at 11:45 a.m. at the Traverse City Civic Center.

At first I was amused that our activities would threaten the lefties enough locally, that they would organize the rally to draw away families from attending the event.

Then I did a little looking..

Apparently, this is not simply a local theme, but one that is happening all over the country. Other states like Texas etc also have the same thing going on.. The "March to the mailbox" event is being explained this way:

The effort is a final appeal to get residents to complete the 10-question Census form and mail it back so that everyone is counted and that each community gets its fair share of political representation and federal funding. Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi have had among the lowest 2010 Census participation rates in the nation.
To help out, awareness events are planned for every corner of every state to promote Census 2010 participation, the final publicity push before Census workers are dispatched to the field to knock on doors and gather the information in person. Among them:

OK.. no major conspiracy here..

But how incredibly unique is it, that the federal government must organize rallies.. to do a head count..

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